Sentence examples for rains runoff from inspiring English sources

After the rare rains, runoff drags heavy metals, pesticides, cigarette butts, animal waste and other pollutants into streams and rivers and eventually to the Pacific Ocean, turning Los Angeles County's beaches into the filthiest in the state.

Heavy rains, runoff, and rising rivers resulted in extensive flooding in northeast, central, and southern Indiana.

The additional pavement accelerates rain runoff, adding to flood dangers.

Countermeasures included collecting rain runoff from roofs in cisterns or rain barrels.

She also had to figure out how to direct rain runoff away from the building.

She also said that improvements were needed in the plan to manage rain runoff on the 12-acre site.

After a heavy rain, runoff can carry all sorts of stuff into them, and not just from people.

One of nine reservoirs that store water destined for the Bay Area, Hetch Hetchy catches snowmelt and rain runoff from the High Sierra.

A sunken octagonal basin in the church floor, originally built to channel the Roman palace's springs and rain runoff, is now often mistaken for a baptismal pool.

Rain runoff from land would normally slightly decrease the salinity of coastal waters, "creating a natural barrier that keeps the jellies from the coast," Dr. Gili said.

Backyard Farms' chief executive, Roy Lubetkin, when pressed, pointed to biological controls like the wasps that allow the company to grow tomatoes without pesticides, and to the four-acre reservoir of reclaimed rain runoff that supplies, almost exclusively, their irrigation water.